Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:29:42 +, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: * Having five gazillion posts that say me too, is not exactly a productive answer to a problem. Alas, this is often what you get when you gather hundreds of _very_ inexperienced

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Glyn Millington
Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: * Having five gazillion posts that say me too, is not exactly a productive answer to a problem. Alas, this is often what you get when you gather hundreds of _very_ inexperienced people and you hand them a web

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 11:38 -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: * Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-14 14:56:26 -0800]: opinion But why are we interested in converting people? That borders on religious, which an operating system should not be. I'm not saying we don't need new users

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 11:54 -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: * Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-16 15:21:27 +1000]: The reason for sending the OP to linux first is they will not be deterred by the driver and hardware issues. Linux IS easier in this way, and has a greater support for

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 22:53 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Still it goes, the OP is trying to get away from MS-Win, not find some non-MS clone in EVERY such post i see exactly opposite. they want windoze clones! they don't ask about how to learn unix, what to read, they didn't read even

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Try ReactOS- it's exactly that. I think its a version of Wine on steroids... does it really work - i mean all (or most at least) programs work. can user simply put say - M$ Office CD/DVD and click setup? if yes - they NEED MORE ADVERTISEMENT. i will check it today on second disk. if it's

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
FreeBSD? i don't think so. While I can see the point you are trying to make, and it's a valid concern, I don't fully agree. What you are essentially hinting at is that having a forum will attract less experienced users. I don't think less experienced people are, for some reason, 'idiots', but

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have the perfect solution for you since you know more than 80 - 90 percent of the subscribers to this list. Why not create you own operating system and then pick and choose who could use it. All of the source you need is freely available. because it will take too much time.

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
So Rolls-Royce should start to mass-produce cars for everyone? it won't be Rolls-Royce anymore. This is nonsense: better start charging money for FreeBSD then. FreeBSD will not turn bad (or Linux) whenever more users are using it. if it would be kept high quality i would be able to pay for

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I don't want to fan the flames, but isn't that exactly what Wojciech is suggesting? That Linux went wrong when it began to cater too much to the perceived need to give former Windows users a user-friendly system? exactly. Anyway, I suspect that this discussion more properly belongs on the

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
have). while there may be some benefit to freebsd becoming 'popular', it would it is already popular within experienced users. number one or two. it's just enough. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, there are difference between less experienced and idiots. the latter are less experienced and WANT TO keep it that way. Wojciech - I appreciate the UNIX knowledge that you have but continuing this discussion in this manner seems pointless. Your points are exagerrated to say the least. I

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:23:07AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Try ReactOS- it's exactly that. I think its a version of Wine on steroids... does it really work - i mean all (or most at least) programs work. can user simply put say - M$ Office CD/DVD and click setup? if yes - they NEED

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Try ReactOS- it's exactly that. well it's an alpha state now as stated on their webpage. i wish they will finalize it withing reasonable time. it would be great. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech - I appreciate the UNIX knowledge that you have but continuing this discussion in this manner seems pointless. Your points are exagerrated to say the least. exactly the same i heard years ago on NetBSD list, and more years ago on linux list. time showed that i was right. I am very

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ReactOS is somewhat of a joke at this point. I've personally tried it, and I cannot see how it can be taken seriously until its cleaned up and made much more user-friendly. There's also been some developer drama in recent days, which literally halted the project for months on end, and I don't

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:27:08 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: _large_ number of inexperienced people may result in a significantly lower signal/noise ratio. I can definitely agree to that. with 100:1 signal/noise ratio experienced people will start to leave the

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, it already had for years. just required to turn on brain for a minute or less to send subscription mail The fact that you love to communicate via email does not mean that everyone shoud/must/does. And you shouldn't call people idiots only because they have different preference than you.

www/xpi-mozex (was Re: Official FreeBSD Forums)

2008-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: | On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:29:42 +, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Oh, wow. That's perfect. Or it would be if it was compatible with | firefox-3.0.4 ... | | It is. I'm using it with Firefox 3.0.4, after

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The fact that you love to communicate via email does not mean that everyone shoud/must/does. And you shouldn't call people idiots only because they have different preference than you. it's not preference. it's self-limiting to just single interface for everything - WWW. today common trend.

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
today we have at least 10:1 Let's not be too pessimistic, shall we? :D i'm realistic. those who are not just less experienced but so brainless that they can't even sent a subscribing mail to mailing list they will not become experienced unix users ever. We can help as much as we

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:01:03 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: those who are not just less experienced but so brainless that they can't even sent a subscribing mail to mailing list they will not become experienced unix users ever. We can help as much as we can, by

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
questions a day. and i do answer and help if i can. but soon it will be much worse. I beg to differ. I don't like playing the `old fart' card, but I've been a subscriber to questions for a decade or so. I haven't noticed any significant reduction in the quality of traffic. It still rocks as

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Modulok
maybe this webforum could help by redirecting some kind of folks to it, making mailing list less noisy. If we're talking about signal to noise ratio, this thread is getting pretty high on the noise end of the spectrum... -Modulok- ___

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I don't want appears as an impatient and I KNOW people that support FreeBSD are volunteers, I am a long time user of our prefered OS I just would like to have an estimation for the release of 7.1. I have two new production servers that will come tomorrow - If the

7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I don't want appears as an impatient and I KNOW people that support FreeBSD are volunteers, I am a long time user of our prefered OS I just would like to have an estimation for the release of 7.1. I have two new production servers that will come tomorrow - If the release is a matter of

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Ott Köstner wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: I don't think it is a matter of days, we have not even reached RC status yet on 7.1 On a production server you will probably wish to go with 7.0-RELEASE-p5. It would be trivial to upgrade to 7.1 by means of freebsd-update(8) when it is released. You

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Robert
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:50:40 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a larger user-base is definitely a good thing. That means attracting NO IT IS NOT! Well, it sounds like Minix may be gaining a new user soon then ;) -- minix doesn't work well under high

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Mel
On Monday 17 November 2008 13:01:53 Ott Köstner wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: I don't think it is a matter of days, we have not even reached RC status yet on 7.1 On a production server you will probably wish to go with 7.0-RELEASE-p5. It would be trivial to upgrade to 7.1 by means of

Re: How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port

2008-11-17 Thread eculp
Vincent Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to use rsync for backup to another machine using a nonstandard port for ssh. 722. snip I've tried many variants but none have worked. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Hi, -e 'ssh -p722' should do it

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Ott Köstner
Manolis Kiagias wrote: I don't think it is a matter of days, we have not even reached RC status yet on 7.1 On a production server you will probably wish to go with 7.0-RELEASE-p5. It would be trivial to upgrade to 7.1 by means of freebsd-update(8) when it is released. You probably don't want

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Ott Köstner
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Ott Köstner wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: I don't think it is a matter of days, we have not even reached RC status yet on 7.1 On a production server you will probably wish to go with 7.0-RELEASE-p5. It would be trivial to upgrade to 7.1 by means of freebsd-update(8)

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:49:26PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Ott Köstner wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: I don't think it is a matter of days, we have not even reached RC status yet on 7.1 On a production server you will probably wish to go with 7.0-RELEASE-p5. It

HAL in GNOME

2008-11-17 Thread Anthony M. Rasat
Hiya all, Can someone point me to URLs that explain how to set up HAL to work in GNOME? I'm using FreeBSD 7.0 RELEASE. Somehow I can't find it with Google. -- Regards, Anthony M. Rasat Manager - Technical, Network and Support Division PT. Jawa Pos National Network Graha Pena Jawa Pos Group

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:41:27 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: improving FreeBSD, there wouldn't be a need to convert. Build it (and secure/stabilise it) and they will come. Indeed, what IS the value of more users to a volunteer project like FreeBSD? to some level

Re: HAL in GNOME

2008-11-17 Thread Mel
On Monday 17 November 2008 13:48:46 Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Can someone point me to URLs that explain how to set up HAL to work in GNOME? I'm using FreeBSD 7.0 RELEASE. Somehow I can't find it with Google. Top result: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=hal+gnome+freebsd -- Mel Problem with

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Ott Köstner
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:49:26PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote: Also, there was a strange phenomenon with FreeBSD router with pf. the rule in question is: 'scrub in all' I do not knw, if this has anything to do with 7.1 issue. Maybe it is not just a good idea to

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:09:15PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:49:26PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote: Also, there was a strange phenomenon with FreeBSD router with pf. the rule in question is: 'scrub in all' I do not knw, if this has anything

Re: changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread GESBBB
From: Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:35:02 AM Could you point out some of those strange-but-trendy features?  I tried Ubuntu for a while on my laptop and it more or less Just Works.  It boots up quickly, detects all my devices, has accelerated 3D etc. Now I

ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my attention problems with iSCSI on FreeBSD. There is a patch available which fixes the issue, but I felt you might want to know about it

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Frank Bonnet
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my attention problems with iSCSI on FreeBSD. There is a patch available which fixes the issue, but I felt you

Re: host based authetication with OpenLDAP and FreeBSD

2008-11-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 14 November 2008 14:32, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I have a OT question and maybe some of the FreeBSD server admins here can help me out. [snip] Having nss_ldap and pam_ldap installed on every single FreeBSD server/box which is capable of being accessed I found in etc/ldap.conf the

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my attention problems with iSCSI on FreeBSD. There is a patch available which fixes the issue, but I felt you

Re: php5 Only IE Users can View Pages.

2008-11-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 14 November 2008 19:36, Martin McCormick wrote: I inherited a mrtg application thatnow is running on a FreeBSD6.3 system. Clients report that one can see the php pages when using Internet Explorer but not other browsers that should display the pages. Those customers see raw

Help! (Re: 7.1)

2008-11-17 Thread Ott Köstner
Manolis Kiagias wrote: You probably don't want to risk 7.1-PRERELEASE on a server, but for anyone running workstations, desktops, laptops I think it is worth trying at this moment. Hi! I had my workstation running 7.0-STABLE. Perfectly well till today. Now I compiled and installed the

cvsup first time - connection refused

2008-11-17 Thread Yony Yossef
Hi, I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds of host names from this list: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-IL-CVSUP I get a Connection refused error. Help.. Yony ___

seg fault when pkg_delete

2008-11-17 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I have some trouble when make deinstall/pkg_delete some ports. I try to backtrace with gdb, and here is what I found when exec pkg_delete under gdb to remove p5-Module-Build-0.30: 0x2815dae6 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.7 any idea?? thanks!! TFC

CARP-Like Solution With Machines On Different Networks?

2008-11-17 Thread Alex Kirk
Hello All, I'm attempting to put a redundant fail-over system in place for a machine that I manage for a non-profit organization of modest budget. For the time being, I'm most interested in having MySQL and HTTP connections roll over to a backup system in the event that the primary

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ott Köstner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am a person, who made a mistake, installing 7.1 on my production server (actually RELENG_7 stable, which shows up as 7.1). My question is, how stupid is that mistake? Is it better to reinstall 7.0 before something really bad happens, or can I just let

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:06:34AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I strongly recommend all of You to stop this bad trend. Could you please stop trolling? You're not contributing to anything here. no - because i'm not trolling. simply ignore me if you don't understand what i write

Re: net-snmp port upgrade build error

2008-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
R Dicaire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks, After updating ports tree with portsnap fetch update, then running pkg_version -l '', pkg_version shows net-snmp is upgradable: pkg_version -l '' net-snmp pkg_replace net-snmp --- Replacing 'net-snmp-5.3.2_3' with

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my attention problems with iSCSI on FreeBSD.

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk stripping em all reduces their size dramatically I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? me too do I miss anything ? no.

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:01:53PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: I don't think it is a matter of days, we have not even reached RC status yet on 7.1 On a production server you will probably wish to go with 7.0-RELEASE-p5. It would be trivial to upgrade to 7.1 by

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Brian Whalen
Manolis Kiagias wrote: It all depends on the programs you run, your configuration, system load and so on. Bugs that may be present in the system, may simply not be applicable to you, if you are not using the specific part or feature that has the problem. While it is difficult to assess

Re: cvsup first time - connection refused

2008-11-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds of host names from this list: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-IL-CVSUP I get a Connection refused error. Help..

Re: cvsup first time - connection refused

2008-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds of host names from this list: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-IL-CVSUP I

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

2008-11-17 Thread N.J. Thomas
* Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-14 17:32:34+]: depends on how they do their installs, i know of a couple hosting companies doing it already Hey! Which ones? Chiming in another rec for RootBSD as well. I've been a customer of theirs for a few months now and very pleased with

Re: High Noonn DVD??

2008-11-17 Thread Fabian Keil
Nikola Lečić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:08:27 +0100 Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola Lečić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:46:00 +0100 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, that's nice to know. All the DVDs that I have

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-17 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk stripping em all reduces their size dramatically I cannot see the reason

pkg_delete core dump

2008-11-17 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, during recompiling some ports, I found my pkg_delete core dump on some ports (not all of them), when it dumped, it has something like this (print/acroread8): # gdb pkg_delete pkg_delete.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software,

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:58:39 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 16 November 2008 11:04:28 am Brad Davis wrote: The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. Thank you! For problem-solving and discussion my personal preference is still for mailing lists,

Re: CARP-Like Solution With Machines On Different Networks?

2008-11-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 17, 2008, at 7:57 AM, Alex Kirk wrote: After doing some research on the matter, it looks like CARP would be a winning solution - but only if the backup system was on the same network segment as the primary box. Given that there's no money to colocate a second backup system at the

Re: pkg_delete core dump

2008-11-17 Thread Mel
On Monday 17 November 2008 20:15:46 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, during recompiling some ports, I found my pkg_delete core dump on some ports (not all of them), when it dumped, it has something like this (print/acroread8): # gdb pkg_delete pkg_delete.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Howard
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:22:11AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] A statically-linked version of bash would waste significant amounts of memory, while a dynamically-linked/shared version would ease that pain.

Re: cvsup first time - connection refused

2008-11-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:53:02PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds of host names from this list:

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:45:52AM -0800, Daniel Howard wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:22:11AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] A statically-linked version of bash would waste significant amounts of memory,

Re: cvsup first time - connection refused

2008-11-17 Thread Mel
On Monday 17 November 2008 20:48:20 Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:53:02PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds of

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

2008-11-17 Thread N.J. Thomas
* Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-17 14:47:00+]: I've not seen any problems with the clock on my RootBSD Xen system. I do run the ntpd in base and on average, my clock is usually only about 15ms away from true UTC. That's interesting. Can you post your `ntpq -p` output here?

KDE Login Manager leaves unexpectedly

2008-11-17 Thread Pieter Donche
In FreeSBD 7.0, set up KDE 3.5. I want to change settings in KDE Settings/SystemAdministration / LoginManager (no shutdown possibility for a non-root privilege user) This asks for the root password, I enter the correct root password, click OK, and that dialog window closes and I back in the

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

2008-11-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:01:02PM -0500, N.J. Thomas wrote: * Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-17 14:47:00+]: I've not seen any problems with the clock on my RootBSD Xen system. I do run the ntpd in base and on average, my clock is usually only about 15ms away from true UTC.

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

2008-11-17 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:38 PM, N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-14 17:32:34+]: depends on how they do their installs, i know of a couple hosting companies doing it already Hey! Which ones? To respond to what another poster said on

Re: www/xpi-mozex (was Re: Official FreeBSD Forums)

2008-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matthew Seaman wrote: Looks like the www/xpi-mozex port is a bit out of date. 1.9.5 in ports versus 1.9.9 available on-line. Unless someone beats me to it, I'll submit an update to the maintainer this evening. ports/128945 Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

KDE Login Manager leaves unexpectedly (2)

2008-11-17 Thread Pieter Donche
Addendum at the end: On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Pieter Donche wrote: In FreeSBD 7.0, set up KDE 3.5. I want to change settings in KDE Settings/SystemAdministration / LoginManager (no shutdown possibility for a non-root privilege user) This asks for the root password, I enter the correct root

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

2008-11-17 Thread N.J. Thomas
* Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-17 12:08:49+]: Intersting, I see the same in my logs, but the frequency seems to be much less than yours, e.g. for the month of November: What time counter source does this box have available? kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0)

KDE Login Manager leaves unexpectedly (3)

2008-11-17 Thread Pieter Donche
Second Addendum at the end: On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Pieter Donche wrote: In FreeSBD 7.0, set up KDE 3.5. I want to change settings in KDE Settings/SystemAdministration / LoginManager (no shutdown possibility for a non-root privilege user) This asks for the root password, I enter the correct

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:40:34PM +, Masoom Shaikh wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk

Re: pkg_delete core dump

2008-11-17 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi Mel, thank you for your help, now I recompile pkg_install and run pkg_delete again, under print/acroread8 it still coredump. here is the result: # gdb pkg_delete pkg_delete.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my attention problems with

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 10:23 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Try ReactOS- it's exactly that. I think its a version of Wine on steroids... does it really work - i mean all (or most at least) programs work. can user simply put say - M$ Office CD/DVD and click setup? if yes - they

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:04:28AM -0700, Brad Davis wrote: You can register and start using our new service here: http://forums.FreeBSD.org How about setting up a bidirectional Forum - Mailing List bridge? Perhaps to freebsd-questions@ or (not as good) to a special new list, say, [EMAIL

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Steven Susbauer
cpghost wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:04:28AM -0700, Brad Davis wrote: You can register and start using our new service here: http://forums.FreeBSD.org How about setting up a bidirectional Forum - Mailing List bridge? Perhaps to freebsd-questions@ or (not as good) to a special new

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:23:55PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: cpghost wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:04:28AM -0700, Brad Davis wrote: You can register and start using our new service here: http://forums.FreeBSD.org How about setting up a bidirectional Forum - Mailing List

Re: dlsym can't use handle returned by dlopen?

2008-11-17 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Don't mean to nag, but is there any news on this? regards, Markus Markus Hoenicka writes: Jeremy Chadwick writes: As promised: http://www.malkavian.com/~jdc/myprog.tar.gz This test program indeed works as expected. However, this doesn't quite reflect the situation in libdbi. I

shrink ntfs

2008-11-17 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all, Newbie question from a not newbie (well I think ;-) ) I've install many FreeBSD, but I always use the all disk. If I've a laptop come with winxp ? How can I shrink the WinNT partition ? Can the FreeBSD install CD do that ? If he can't what's your advice for some software to do that ?

Re: shrink ntfs

2008-11-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:39:48AM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all, Newbie question from a not newbie (well I think ;-) ) I've install many FreeBSD, but I always use the all disk. If I've a laptop come with winxp ? How can I shrink the WinNT partition ? Can the FreeBSD install CD do

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Frank Steinborn
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:38:53PM +0100, cpghost wrote: IMHO there should be a way to archive forum posts in some way, and make them available in near real-time to users whose workflow is much more geared towards mailing lists. One might miss an interesting forum thread, because not everyone

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 10:40 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: ReactOS is somewhat of a joke at this point. I've personally tried it, and I cannot see how it can be taken seriously until its cleaned up and made much more user-friendly. There's also been some developer drama in recent days,

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
they could sell it, instead of begging for donations If you start selling software like that, you end up just like another M $. of course not like that. but with total of ca 2000$ donations over 2 years it doesn't make sense. Me personally I don't like the software and system introduced

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Unfortunately, the only one who doesn't understand would not be any of the other posters. The community is much more trustworthy than you give it credit. The community got us a valuable resource and will continue to do so if people who might take an interest aren't too put off by perpetual

realtime network replication

2008-11-17 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Hello all, I need to replicate /home between two freebsd servers in real time (no scheduled rsyncs) What are my options? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
not mentioning linux that got just billion$ total sposoring from IBM. Could you point out some of those strange-but-trendy features? I tried Ubuntu for a while on my laptop and it more or less Just Works. It very slow and badly under high load

Re: realtime network replication

2008-11-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 17, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Ansar Mohammed wrote: I need to replicate /home between two freebsd servers in real time (no scheduled rsyncs) What are my options? Most people use a network file system (ie, NFS, Samba/CIFS, etc) for this sort of thing -- -Chuck

Re: shrink ntfs

2008-11-17 Thread Kurt Buff
I doubt the FreeBSD install CD will do that. However, I'd get a copy gparted on a live CD. That'll do what you want. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Newbie question from a not newbie (well I think ;-) ) I've install many FreeBSD, but I always

RE: realtime network replication

2008-11-17 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Ok, I have /home on one server, I need to REPLICATE /home to another server in realtime. Kinda like a mirror, but over a network. I don't want to use rsync because its not realtime. -Original Message- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 17, 2008 8:28 PM To:

smbfs 2 GB file size limit

2008-11-17 Thread Derek Ragona
I have FreeBSD 7.0 Release and if I mount_smbfs a network NTFS share I have a 2 GB size limit on files. I checked the handbook and list archives but have not found a solution. Supposedly there is an smbmount as part of the standard samba, but that doesn't seem to install from any of the

Re: shrink ntfs

2008-11-17 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt the FreeBSD install CD will do that. However, I'd get a copy gparted on a live CD. That'll do what you want. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Newbie question from a

Re: realtime network replication

2008-11-17 Thread Eric Schuele
On 11/17/2008 19:32, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Ok, I have /home on one server, I need to REPLICATE /home to another server in realtime. Kinda like a mirror, but over a network. I don't want to use rsync because its not realtime. Something along the lines of this maybe:

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